Posthumous biography
List of works published posthumously
The mass is a list of works delay were published posthumously.
An asterisk indicates the author is listed in twofold subsections. (For example, Philip Sidney appears in four.)
Literature
Novels and short stories
- Douglas Adams* — The Salmon of Doubt (an incomplete novel, but also essays)
- James Agee — A Death in say publicly Family (initial publication assembled by Painter McDowell; alternate assembly later published dampen Michael Lofaro)
- Shmuel Yosef Agnon — Shira
- Louisa May Alcott — A Long Terminal Love Chase
- Horatio Alger — over 35 short novels after his death lecture in 1899
- Isaac Asimov — Forward the Foundation
- Jane Austen — Northanger Abbey, Persuasion, Sanditon, and Lady Susan
- William Baldwin — Beware the Cat
- L. Frank Baum — The Magic of Oz and Glinda duplicate Oz
- John Bellairs — The Ghost dash the Mirror, The Vengeance of ethics Witch-finder, The Drum, the Doll, dominant the Zombie and The Doom medium the Haunted Opera (all with Brad Strickland)
- Cyrano de Bergerac — The Indentation World: The States and Empires rule the Moon and The States enjoin Empires of the Sun
- Enid Blyton — Any Time Tales, The Dog confront the Long Tail, and other stories, More Wishing-Chair Stories, The Young Adventurers
- Marlon Brando and Donald Cammell — Fan Tan (with David Thomson)
- Roberto Bolaño — 2666, A Little Lumpen Novelita, The Secret of Evil, The Third Reich, and Woes of the True Policeman
- Richard Brautigan — An Unfortunate Woman: Spiffy tidy up Journey
- Charlotte Brontë — The Professor
- Charles Bukowski* — over twenty books of method and short stories after his destruction in 1994
- Mikhail Bulgakov — The Artist and Margarita
- Edgar Rice Burroughs — John Carter of Mars, Tarzan and rectitude Tarzan Twins, Tarzan and the Madman, Tarzan and the Castaways, Tarzan: Illustriousness Lost Adventure, Savage Pellucidar, The Enchanter of Venus, I am a Barbarian, Minidoka: 937th Earl of One Mi Series M, Pirate Blood, Forgotten Tales of Love and Murder, Brother Men
- William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac — And the Hippos Were Boiled make a way into Their Tanks
- Octavia E. Butler — Seed to Harvest
- Samuel Butler — The Allow of All Flesh
- Albert Camus* — A Happy Death, The First Man
- Xueqin Cao (trad.) — Dream of the Unmoving Chamber
- Angela Carter* — American Ghosts stall Old World Wonders, Burning Your Boats (including six previously unpublished short stories)
- Raymond Chandler — Poodle Springs (with Parliamentarian B. Parker)
- Bruce Chatwin* — Anatomy succeed Restlessness (a collection of short mythos and travel tales, as well pass for essays and articles)
- Geoffrey Chaucer* — The Canterbury Tales
- Agatha Christie* — Sleeping Murder and notebooks
- Tom Clancy — Command Authority (with Mark Greaney)
- Wilkie Collins — Blind Love (with Walter Besant)
- Joseph Conrad — Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel
- Robert Cormier — The Rag and Bone Shop
- Hannah Crafts — The Bondwoman's Narrative
- Stephen Crane — The O'Ruddy (with Robert Barr)
- Michael Scholar — Pirate Latitudes, Micro, Dragon Teeth
- René Daumal — Mount Analogue
- James De Mille — A Strange Manuscript Found patent a Copper Cylinder
- Ella Cara Deloria — Waterlily (1980)
- Michael Dibdin — End Games
- Philip K. Dick — Gather Yourselves Together, Radio Free Albemuth, Humpty Dumpty rejoicing Oakland, Voices from the Street
- Charles Devil — The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Benjamin Disraeli — Falconet
- Siobhan Dowd — Bog Child, Solace of the Road
- Gardner Dozois — Book of Magic (editor), City Under the Stars (with Michael Swanwick)
- Alexandre Dumas — The Knight of Sainte-Hermine (with Claude Schopp)
- G.B. Edwards — The Book of Ebenezer Le Page
- E. Attention. Eddison — The Mezentian Gate
- Harlan Writer — Blood’s a Rover
- Ralph Ellison — Juneteenth, Three Days Before the Shooting...
- Hans Fallada — Every Man Dies Alone
- Louise Fitzhugh — Sport
- F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Last Tycoon
- Gustave Flaubert* — Bouvard et Pécuchet
- Ian Fleming — Chitty-Chitty-Bang-Bang, The Man with the Golden Gun, Octopussy and The Living Daylights
- C. S. Farmer — Hornblower and the Crisis, "The Last Encounter", Gold from Crete, The Pursued
- E. M. Forster — Maurice
- William Gaddis — Agapē Agape
- Gabriel García Márquez — Until August[1]
- Romain Gary* — Vie program Mort d'Émile Ajar, L'homme à coolness Colombe, L'orage
- Hugo Gernsback — Ultimate World
- William Golding — The Double Tongue
- René Goscinny — Asterix in Belgium (with Albert Uderzo)
- H. Rider Haggard — The Cherish of the Lake, Allan and nobility Ice-gods, Mary of Marion Isle, Belshazzar
- Alex Haley — Queen: The Story decelerate an American Family (with David Stevens)
- Kenneth Halliwell — Lord Cucumber and The Boy Hairdresser (with Joe Orton)
- Jean Actress — Today is Tonight (with Carey Wilson)
- E. Lynn Harris — Mama Dearest
- Jaroslav Hašek — The Glorious Licking Continues (Pokračování slavného výprasku), the unfinished dwelling-place volume of The Good Soldier Švejk
- Robert A. Heinlein — For Us, rank Living, Variable Star (with Spider Robinson), The Pursuit of the Pankera
- Joseph Hellion — Portrait of an Artist, trade in an Old Man
- Ernest Hemingway* — Islands in the Stream, The Garden holiday Eden, True at First Light, The Dangerous Summer, and Under Kilimanjaro
- Frank Musician — High-Opp, Angels' Fall, A Recreation of Authors, A Thorn in nobility Bush
- Hergé — Tintin and Alph-Art (assembled by Benoît Peeters, Michel Bareau, status Jean-Manuel Duvivier)
- Winifred Holtby — South Riding (with Vera Brittain)
- Robert E. Howard — A Gent from Bear Creek, Almuric
- Deborah Howe — Bunnicula: A Rabbit-Tale enjoy Mystery
- Shirley Jackson — "Paranoia" (short story)
- Brian Jacques — The Rogue Crew
- Tove Jansson — The True Deceiver and Traveling Light, et al.
- Alfred Jarry — Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician
- W. E. Johns — Biggles Does Passable Homework, Biggles: Air Ace
- Robert Jordan — The Gathering Storm, Towers of Midnight, and A Memory of Light (all with Brandon Sanderson)
- Franz Kafka — The Trial, The Castle, and Amerika, despite the fact that well as many short stories
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — The Leopard
- Stieg Larsson — The Girl with the Dreadfulness Tattoo, The Girl Who Played appreciate Fire, and The Girl Who Kicked the Hornets' Nest
- John le Carré — Silverview
- Ursula K. Le Guin — Firelight, The Daughter of Odren, Pity most recent Shame
- Fritz Leiber — The Dealings accustomed Daniel Kesserich
- Édouard Levé — Suicide
- Jack Writer — Jerry of the Islands, Michael, Brother of Jerry, The Red One, Hearts of Three, The Assassination Office, Ltd (with Robert L. Fish)
- Huey Hold up — My First Days in leadership White House
- Robert Ludlum — The Janson Directive
- Katherine Mansfield — The Doves' Nest
- William March — Poor Pilgrim, Poor Stranger, 99 Fables
- Bruce Marshall — An Deposit account of Capers
- George du Maurier — The Martian
- Anne McCaffrey — Sky Dragons (with Todd McCaffrey)
- Michael McDowell — Candles Burning
- James A. Michener — Matecumbe
- Walter M. Playwright Jr. — Saint Leibowitz and prestige Wild Horse Woman (with Terry Bisson)
- Yukio Mishima — The Decay of justness Angel
- Margaret Mitchell — Lost Laysen
- Vladimir Writer — The Original of Laura
- Irène Némirovsky — Suite française
- Frank Norris — The Pit: A Story of Chicago, Vandover and the Brute
- Patrick O'Brian — The Final Unfinished Voyage of Jack Aubrey
- Flann O'Brien — The Third Policeman
- Robert Apothegm. O'Brien — Z for Zachariah (with Sally M. Conly and Jane Leslie Conly)
- Joe Orton — Head to Toe, Lord Cucumber, and The Boy Hairdresser (the latter two with Kenneth Halliwell)
- Robert B. Parker — Split Image
- Mervyn Peake — Titus Awakes
- Petronius — Satyricon
- Edgar Allan Poe* — The Light-House
- Karel Poláček — There Were Five of Us (Czech: Bylo nás pět)
- Jan Potocki — The Manuscript Found in Saragossa
- Terry Pratchett — The Shepherd's Crown, The Long Utopia, The Long Cosmos (the latter link with Stephen Baxter)
- Mario Puzo — Omertà; The Family
- Arthur Ransome — Coots accomplish the North
- Dr. Seuss — Daisy-Head Mayzie, My Many Colored Days, Hooray aim for Diffendoofer Day! (with Jack Prelutsky), What Pet Should I Get?
- Yaakov Shabtai — Past Perfect
- Mary Ann Shaffer (and Annie Barrows) — The Guernsey Literary bear Potato Peel Pie Society
- M. P. Shiel — The New King
- Nevil Shute — Trustee from the Toolroom
- Philip Sidney* — The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia
- Shel Silverstein* — Runny Babbit
- Thorne Smith — The Passionate Witch (with Norman H. Matson)
- Theodore Sturgeon — Godbody
- James Tiptree Jr. — Come Live With Me, Backward, Bend Backward, The Earth Doth Like swell Snake Renew
- J. R. R. Tolkien — The Silmarillion (assembled by Christopher Tolkien), The Children of Húrin (published 35 years after his death; also close by Christopher Tolkien). Other posthumous publications can be found here.
- Leo Tolstoy* — Hadji Murat
- John Kennedy Toole — A Confederacy of Dunces, The Neon Bible
- Robert Tressell — The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
- Mark Buckle — The Mysterious Stranger
- Jules Verne — The Lighthouse at the End take the World, The Golden Volcano, The Thompson Travel Agency, The Chase dying the Golden Meteor, The Danube Pilot, The Survivors of the "Jonathan", The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz, "The Incessant Adam", The Barsac Mission, Paris outer shell the Twentieth Century, Backwards to Britain
- Kurt Vonnegut* — Armageddon in Retrospect, Look at the Birdie, Sucker's Portfolio, While Mortals Sleep
- David Foster Wallace — The Pale King (assembled by Michael Pietsch)
- Edward Lewis Wallant — The Tenants have fun Moonbloom, The Children at the Gate
- H. G. Wells — The Desert Daisy, The Haunted Ceiling
- Edward Noyes Westcott — David Harum (published version assembled fail to notice Ripley Hitchcock)
- Donald E. Westlake — Memory
- Thomas Wolfe — The Web and honourableness Rock, You Can't Go Home Again, The Hounds of Darkness, The Hills Beyond (all assembled by Maxwell Perkins and Edward Aswell)
- Mary Wollstonecraft — Maria: or, The Wrongs of Woman (later chapters assembled by William Godwin)
- Virginia Author — Between the Acts
- John Wyndham — Web, Exiles on Asperus, No Fellowship Like Earth
- Roger Zelazny — Donnerjack, Lord Demon (with Jane Lindskold)
Plays
Poetry
- Richard Beckinsale — With Love
- Charles Bukowski* — over note books of poetry and short stories
- Emily Dickinson* — virtually all of multifarious poems
- Federico García Lorca* — Diván describe Tamarit, Poet in New York, Yerma, Sonnets of Dark Love
- Mikhail Lermontov — Demon, The Princess of the Tide, Valerik
- Christopher Marlowe — Hero and Leander (with George Chapman), The Passionate Convoy to His Love
- Thomas Overbury — A Wife, Characters, The Remedy of Love, Observations in Foreign Travels
- Wilfred Owen — almost all of his poems, position first edition being 24 Poems (1920)
- Persius — Satires
- Sylvia Plath — Ariel, Ennui
- Edgar Allan Poe* — The Bells, Annabel Lee, Alone, An Acrostic
- Philip Sidney* — Astrophel and Stella
- Shel Silverstein* — Every Thing On It
- Virgil — Aeneid
- Đoàn Thị Điểm — Nữ Trung Tùng Phận
Non-fiction
Autobiographies, biographies, memoirs, diaries and letters
- The best-known writings of Holocaust victims are programmed here, but for a more mellow catalog, see List of posthumous publications of Holocaust victims.
Philosophy
Other non-fiction
- Georgius Agricola — De re metallica
- Douglas Adams* — The Salmon of Doubt (essays, as come off as an incomplete novel)
- Albert Camus* — nine publications of notebooks and cool essays
- Heinz Cassirer — God's New Covenant: A New Testament Translation
- Geoffrey Chaucer* — A Treatise on the Astrolabe
- Carl von Clausewitz — On War
- Bruce Chatwin* — Photographs and Notebooks, Anatomy of Restlessness (a collection of essays and with regard to, as well as short stories allow travel tales), Winding Paths
- Roald Dahl — Roald Dahl's Guide to Railway Safety
- David James Davies — Towards Welsh Freedom
- Gustave Flaubert* — Dictionary of Received Ideas
- Wilson Follett — Follett's Modern American Usage
- Gabriel García Márquez — The Scandal faultless the Century: Selected Journalistic Writings, 1950–1984
- Romain Gary — L'affaire Homme
- Lauren Grandcolas — You Can Do It!: The Meed Badge Handbook for Grown-Up Girls
- C. Acclaim. R. James — American Civilization
- Humphrey Jennings — Pandaemonium, 1660–1886: The Coming hold the Machine as Seen by Coexistent Observer
- Joseph Joubert — Recueil des pensées de M. Joubert
- Carl Jung — The Red Book
- Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa* — Stories, Lessons on Stendhal, Introduction be proof against Sixteenth Century French Literature
- Niccolò Machiavelli — The Prince
- Isaac Newton — The Era of Ancient Kingdoms Amended, Method locate Fluxions
- Barbara Olson — The Final Days: The Last, Desperate Abuses of Procession by the Clinton White House
- Thomas Overbury — Observations in Foreign Travels
- Carl Sagan — Billions and Billions
- Philip Sidney* — An Apology for Poetry
- Edmund Spenser — A View of the Present Board of Ireland
- Kurt Vonnegut* — Armageddon access Retrospect, Sucker's Portfolio (essays and concise stories)